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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2017
Comcast Cable Communications, Llc, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Asad Haque, Chesterbrook, PA (US);
COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for managing device association and access is disclosed. Some embodiments may include receiving, from a user device, a request to access a network device. The request may include a public key of the user device. The request may include a digital certificate, wherein the digital certificate may include the public key of the user device. A distributed database address of the user device may be determined by applying a deterministic function to the public key of the user device. A distributed database entry may include the address of the user device. A distributed database entry may be generated. The distributed database entry may include the address of the user device. Based on the address of the user device, access to the network device may be granted to the user device.